Quotes About Fulfillment

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy.

A creation perfectly evolved to meet its own end.

A friend once told me that those who choose a love that can never be fulfilled will be hounded by a rage that can never be extinguished.

What. When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up.

And that would be my life. And I would be happy.

A friend once told me that that those who choose a love that can never be fulfilled will be hounded by a rage that can never be extinguished.

When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country. - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate consumption, especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity. This market activity has contributed greatly to the disorientation and confusion of American youth, and those with less education and fewer opportunities bear the brunt of this cultural chaos.

Life without meaning, hope, and love breeds a coldhearted, mean-spirited outlook that destroys the individual and others.

Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

It was like a promise that wishes could come true, that desire might lead to more than yearning.

And all was well.

Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for?

A sense of purpose is a wonderful tonic for anxiety.

Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute.

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

The people who were least expected to worship the Christ-child come to do so, while those who should have been awaiting him are threatened by his arrival.

In the presence of my muse, I no longer NEEDED to draw.

What if God wants us to be happy? What if there's nothing else around the bend? What if all our unhappiness is in the past and from here on out we get an uncomplicated life? Some people get that, you know. Why shouldn't it be us?

You have to believe that you're entitled to happiness.

We're so lucky, I said. Don't you think? Most people don't have that. I know, everywhere other than New York, if you have a good job and a spouse and kids and a house and a car, those are the markers of maturity and stability and completeness. And you eat your dinner at seven P.M. and go to bed at ten, and go for vigorous jogs on the weekend. If you're into that, great. But there are lots of other ways to put a life together.

If this was all I ever got, it would be the best thing that had ever happened to me, and if this was all I ever got, I'd never stop wanting more of it.

We both were smiling, and I loved him, I loved him completely, and I knew that he loved me back. I could feel it. That moment- inside it, I could anticipate the thing I most wanted and I could be beyond it, it had happened already, and I was ensconced in the rich reassurance of knowing it was certain and definite.